The Left is relentless in their efforts to ban guns. They will stop at nothing to see every law abiding gun owner disarmed and helpless. It is also apparent that the Second Amendment means bupkis to them. Instead of using firearms to deter criminals, leftists have proposed women taking up rape whistles and scissors.

What?

We’re often told that women shouldn’t be able to handle guns because they’re “scary killing machines,” yet somehow we’re now expected to serve on the front lines. But I digress… Additionally, the Left views women as victims who must rely on the government from cradle to grave (think Life of Julia). What happened to the Left being about so-called women’s empowerment?

Speaking as a young female, I honestly don’t see how whistling our problems away or using scissors will likely deter a pervert or aggressor from attacking us. Do anti-gun proponents honestly think a criminal will be merciless because their intended victim is going to beg and plead and whistle them away? NO. Criminals are criminals because they don’t follow laws and have the intent of harming people.

Ragspierre is correct: Rape whistles may be very useful in a gang rape situation as it will help other participants locate a rape already in progress.

Seriously, though, this is just pathetic. The country is well on it’s way to a society like they have in the UK, where the right to self defense in your home or on the street has been essentially take away; and where the level of violent crime (per 100,000) is much higher that the US. The number of rapes per 100,000 is about twice that of the US. Keep up the good work, Idiots.

I have a question: are females under the new system really assumed to be capable of thinking? The level of “we have to take care of them” leaves off the rest of the sentence “… because they’re not capable of taking care of themselves”.

I’m personally not quite clear how a whistle or pair of scissors is going to work. Whistles are NOT very loud, and people can blow whistles for all kinds of reasons. When I was a college kid, everybody ignored car-alarms. But a gun – now THAT makes a really loud sound, everybody knows what it sounds like, and everybody also knows that when one goes off, its because something VERY serious is happening. I’d choose a gun loaded with blanks (if you were somehow opposed to hurting the person who’s going to hurt/kill you) – at least you’d get better response than a whistle.

And seriously – a rapist is going to give you time and presence of mind to pull out a pair of scissors? Oh, and don’t forget to enroll in the “scissors v. baseball bat or lead pipe wielded by a much larger/stronger opponent” self-defense course.

Now, if you’re assaulted alone in a park, the rape whistle won’t stop the rape, but it might draw in a passerby who’d call 911 and be a witness. Or it might call in a second rapist. Who knows? If only there were a way for women to secure their own safety before the assault occurs.

So, wait, someone being attacked by a rapist or mugger is supposed to blow a whistle? Why? No one except the rapist/mugger has a gun, so what’s supposed to happen? Someone else armed to the teeth (with a whistle, of course) can . . . um, join in on the whistling to alert other armed whistlers.

Maybe the hope is that someone running with scissors (!) will come and save them?

I don’t mean to make light of it; this is deadly serious, but when I hear leftist “solutions,” my snark machine goes into overdrive.

I support defense in layers. If it is possible to prevent an act of involuntary exploitation by coordinating with allies in the vicinity, then that is the first step to be taken.

It’s a risk management problem. Women, and men, need to consider the possibilities and act to mitigate known and unknown risks. If our judgement is wrong, or our actions are unwarranted, then we will be held accountable.

That said, the proposed gun control laws, which focus on empowering criminals, are poorly conceived. However, if they do pass, it may be sufficient to bypass them, and [re]purchase guns, especially the full automatic designs, directly from the cartels in Central America. I wonder what the Mexicans will think about several million undocumented visitors.

The thing that creeps me out about the scissors recommendation is that if you are fighting someone bigger and stronger than you are with scissors, there’s a pretty good chance that they will take the scissors from you, and then use them on you.

Someone somewhere is going to read that recommendation, try it, and get their throat cut out with the very thing they tried to defend themselves with.

Since everyone is disarmed, the only good that a whistle may do is for someone to call the police so the rape kit can be applied right away–assuming the victim is still alive. Otherwise the police can draw nice chalk outline of the body.

But we should all be really afraid of those gun nuts. You know, the gun nuts who never seem to go crazy with their legal guns. Instead of being so afraid of attackers, gangs, or mobs. Because, after all, sooner or later the police will catch the criminals. And they will only shoot a few wrong people along the way.

victim: if you come any closer i will blow this wonder whistle!
rapist: if you blow that whistle i’ll slash up your face and you’ll wonder what the morons who told you to blow it were thinking; every day , when you look in the mirror, for the rest of your life.
conclusion: rapists are not nice people and may not respond to your puny whistle as you wish
get a gat

You people realize that these folks at DHS actually sat around a table and discussed this issue and came up with this solution. I cannot fathom that. The clowns are in charge of the circus. I think Barry needs to arm his Secret Service personnel with rocks and scissors. By the way, have you guys seen the new tactical assault rocks?

My son, a USMC veteran, is a senior at a very liberal university. He leads the on-campus veterans group and they are very active in working to serve both veterans in the community as well as serve the campus as a whole.

The campus is very spread out and in an area that is very hilly and the parking lots are in remote and dark locations. There have been a fairly large number of women – and some men – attacked and the campus has signs promoting a number of “safety” things all over.

The veterans group took a proposal to the student council, they volunteered to set up a service to escort students or faculty on campus after dark. All participants would pass police background checks and nobody would be armed. The head of the campus police and the chief of police in the surrounding city were both actively supporting the idea.

The campus feminist organizations went into full estrogen overload. Their representative at the student council was screaming that THEY didn’t need any MEN to protect them. The idea was tabled.

” . . . on the street I can only put 7 rounds in a 10 round mag, but at the range, I can load it to the brim.”

Not here on Oahu. No sirree Bob! We don’t allow anyone at the (government owned) Coco Head shooting range to load more than 5 rounds here, both in magazines and revolvers. Try it and you will be thrown off the range. Stated reason: If someone goes crazy and starts shooting people, s/he will have only five rounds in the gun.

Really. That’s the reason they gave me. Apparently our enlightened City Council ordered it. I feel so much safer knowing that homicidal maniacs will be ejected if they shoot more than 5 people before reloading.